ALLEGENCES

THUNDERCLAN

LEADER- Specklestar- Tortoiseshell she-cat with white paws

DEPUTY- Cederpelt- Brown-red tom

MEDICINE CAT- Hollytail- Blue-gray she-cat

Apprentice- Littletail

WARRIORS- (toms and she-cats without kits)

Tawnyspots- Senior warrior tom with large muscular limbs and ginger fur/

Runningclaw – Black tom

Apprentice- Smokepaw

Cinderfur- Beautiful cherry she-cat

Pebblefoot- Silver she-cat with dark black stripes

Darkwing- Gray tom with brilliant blue eyes

Apprentice- Skypaw

Willowclaw- Pale tom with a black tail and ears

APPRENTINCES (more than six moons old, in training to become warriors)

Smokepaw- Smoky-black apprentice with gray paws and ears

Skypaw- White she-cat with ginger splotches

Littletail- Brown, white, and black cat with a very small tail.

QUEENS (she cats expecting or nursing kits)

Silverpool- Brilliant silver she-cat with green eyes

Flowerheart- Ginger she-cat with yellow eyes

Cloudtail- White she-cat with sparkling blue eyes

Crimsonleaf- Scarlet she-cat with white paws

KITS

Bluekit- Blue-gray she-cat, tinged with silver around her muzzle

Patchkit- Unusually small black-and-white tom

Onekit- Pale gray she-cat

Dapplekit- Female tortoiseshell kit with a dappled coat

Brownkit- Big dark brown tabby tom

Smallkit- Gray kit with unusually small ears

ELDERS (former Warriors and queens, now retired)

Oneear- Oldest elder with black and brown fur and one ear

Swallowfur- Once-beautiful tortoiseshell queen

Stripedpelt- White tom with various ginger splotches

PROLOUGE

Starlight shown over the Thunderclan camp. Hollytail was lying in her den, in pain, with a kit cuddled next to her. Suddenly, leaves rustled as a cat entered.

Hollytail turned around. "Runningclaw! You know you can't be here!" The young she-cat whispered angrily.

Runningclaw stepped up to her. "I had to see the kits! Did they turn out alright?"

Hollytail shook her head. "No… one of them died." Her voice quivered. "But… there's still this one… the blue one." Suddenly she wailed. "Runningclaw! The kit's didn't come out right! I… I think… Runningclaw…."

"Well, at least this one came out." Runningclaw nudged the sleeping blue-gray she-cat.

"I'm not sure if I will…" Hollytail moaned. Runningclaw noticed a scent of blood that he hadn't noticed before in his excitement about his kit.

Runningclaw licked Hollytail's forehead. "You'll be okay… Oh, Starclan, you have to be okay! You're bleeding!"

Hollytail gave a serene smile. "It's… better this way…"

"No! No it isn't! Hollytail!"

"When I die, Littletail will take over my position. You can give Bluekit to Silverpool, I trust her. Medicine cats aren't supposed to have kits, anyhow. But, wait, Runningclaw… I know something about this kit…"

"What?"

"I had a dream… last night… there was… WingedStar… and… he… said… this kit… will… do amazing… things... the salvation… of… the…clan…"

"HOLLYTAIL! Wait!"

"I love you, Runningclaw... Tell… Silverpool to take… care of… our… kits."

With that, Hollytail breathed her last breath.

"NO! Hollytail! Come back! Please!" Runningclaw shook the limp cat's body. "HOLLYTAIIIIIIIL! No!" Runningclaw collapsed in front of the young she-cat's body.

Bluekit opened her small eyes, and in shock, scampered away and stared at the tom she didn't know to be her father. Little did the miniscule kit know the future in store for her.